Police Cadet Goes on Shooting Spree At Family Party, Armed Party Goer Takes Him Down

Police Cadet Michael William Little, of Knoxville, Tennessee was shot and killed after he opened fire on his ex-girlfriends family, killing one of the guests at the home, and wounding several others. Little allegedly became hostile when he showed up at the house 2 weeks after him and his ex-girlfriend Ashley Womack broke up.

When Little arrived, tensions escalated quickly, and after a quick argument he ran to his car to retrieve his handgun. He then waked to the back porch and began to open fire on Ashley and her entire family. During the incident, 28-year-old Travis Wegener, a visitor to the home, was shot and killed.

Ashley and her mother were also struck with bullets, seriously injuring the older woman. 18-year-old Ashley Womack was treated and released from a local hospital with a gunshot wound to her leg, while her mother, 47-year-old Rhonda Womack, was also hospitalized with a gunshot wound to her shoulder, she is listed under serious condition.

When the shooting broke out, 22-year-old Joshua Womack, Ashley’s brother, shot back and killed the cadet, possibly saving the lives of other friends and family members.

“A guy with a rifle came around the house, and he just walking at him with the rifle. He was like ‘bop, bop, bop.’ He just keeps shooting him… The neighbor ran across the yard and tells him to stop shooting. Bad situation,” a neighbor told WBIR.

Little was enrolled in the local police department’s “cadet” program, which essentially acts as a training school for young people hoping to be officers.

Rich Grimes Stop making this a race issue. You disservice yourself and everyone else when you try to lump it into a race problem.. It's a human problem... Besides, the "white guy" was on a rampage.. Ignorant fuckwad.

Tony Lew YES!! When a white man such as Cliven Bundy presents a direct challenge to state power, he gets a pass. When black people do it, without making it a military excursion like those fake militias did, we get Ferguson. We let any white guy hammer on a bike lock for 30 minutes, but as soon as he's black, everyone stops to film him and bug him. We let countless white people who are hopelessly mind-fucked get weapons, including explosives, with nary a glance. Gather on a corner while black, however, and all of a sudden you are a drug dealer and deserve to die because you threw up gang signs. You know who else is gangsta? Old farts in Thailand. Look at AIM at Alcatraz and Leonard Peltier. Look at the TX record of executions. And they want you to believe that white privilege is a myth, and that civil rights laws are no longer necessary. What are they gonna do? Cut the safety net and use that money to buy more second-rate military equipment so poor people can go catch bullets. Then use the outrage over the dead young men and women to keep the war going. We can stop this, you know.

Giovanni Campanella if that were true, then all the 2nd amendment anti-government gun lovers would be fighting the tyranny they talk so big about. notice who is going to Ferg, and who is not. The second amendment doesn't matter when law is suspended. It's a law.

and yeah, people are finally waking up--it is not about race, and the government that last week talked racial peace is the one that now keeps up the divide--anything to keep the people from seeing that it a owners vs workers issue, a state power issue.

Matt Cyprian, I am a black man, I know about stereotyping firsthand. I didn't experience it from reading a book or watching a documentary. I live it EVERY day. "People of my ilk"? You know nothing of my people.

Craig Mann don't be a tool, it was a hypothetical, you humans rely on technology like crack cocaine, that isn't anyones fault but your own. Bent on killing or not if you are close enough to disarm them and put them in a submission that is more than enough, less people would have been hurt and likely no one would have been killed.

Craig Mann I understand the weapon is not the problem, it is the intent to use it, but think, if it wasn't there to be used could you use it? Would you rely on deadly force to solve issues more or less often?

Michael Ament everyone who wants gun control wants the government to have guns. The cadet could have had access to guns and not the citizen. Evil people always kill. Good people will never understand evil people. Good people just have to recognize evil and deal with it.

Michael Ament your rainbow fries are getting cold and your pegasus need to have the oil changed. I suggest you go to Ferguson and "disarm" the bad guys with a "submission" you speak of. AT DAWN, HE RIDES!! lmao
Good night tinkerbell.

Craig Mann Yeah reality is not a human concept, it wasn't always this way, I don't now why you are implying I'm living in fantasy. You are the light as well as the value, there is no definition without you, therefore you are the fantasy, keep sleeping sheep of subjectivity.

Michael Ament I hear what you are saying but the fact is that guns will always be an issue. I am a Texan living in Europe, and as you know Europe has the toughest gun laws in the world and shootings happen here on a daily basis

So Jim, just playing to your ignorance but you equate a broken eye socket to a 17 year olds' life? Unlike you, I wouldn't trade the broken bones and other injuries I've endured in my lifetime for a human life. Injuries heal. Teenagers grow up and feel shame for their teenaged mistakes and become productive citizens, if they're not murdered by those WE pay to protect and serve US.

Jim Harrington Sr Broken eye socket? Yeah right! Laughable. You must have got that from the same source that said Brown robbed a store. Ohh by the way he didn't rob that store(attorney for store owner verified). FACTS FACTS FACTS hard for racist ignorant people to handle.

Ryan Philippe ignore that dumb ass. He's probably either a cop or a cops girlfriend. Usually the kind of people who justify the police (or cadets) behaving like they are above the law is because they would love to be able to treat people that way too. ;)

I'm no cop and I usually don't support them, but I support that man's right to defend himself. Sorry that he didn't wait to see if the "gentle giant" was going to try to kill him with his bare hands. I highly doubt any of you have been in anything more than a slap fight. You can easily hospitalize someone with your bare hands, especially if you have size on your side. Homeboy had it coming. He thought he was invincible and pulled the wrong straw. I would have shot him as well as would most gun carrying people. Hell I would have shot him the first go around and the cop let him walk away from that. I'm not going to take a chance that I am severely injured, even dead, just to save the idiots life. After all, he could have saved his own life by not rushing at the officer. And Ryan I have yet to see that information. The only part that is up for debate, for now, is whether or not the description of the suspects were communicated over the radio before or after the stop. The video clearly shows big boy thinking he runs the show. He no knows he can't beat the bullet. Tough luck for him. NEXT

Steven Mackey , if Michael Brown really had hit that cop that fact would have been told immediately to try to quell the protests and photos shown of the cop's injuries. I've seen enough in my years to know that fact. Cops aren't as stupid as they act. If you were that cop who just gunned down an unarmed kid in the street because he back-talked and disrespected you when you ordered him to walk on the sidewalk, wouldn't you go along with the lie your commanders made up for you and allow someone to beat your face in to make it look real? Well..so would he.

But that's what they *want*... The force wants psychopaths and sociopaths, because they don't think too much when they're directed to intimidate, harrass, detain and turn their weapons on their own citizens. Plus the added bonus for them is that they'll actually *enjoy* being a mindless, gun-wielding murder machine.

Isabella de Corinzano no, he's saying they are glorifying the fact that he was a cadet, with language designed to dehumanize the real victims, through not mentioning them. Lack of information, non-news, and "non-decisions" are subtler (yet not so subtle if you have some idea of different "models" of power) mechanisms of the power that the state arrays against us. And they say it's a left wing media! If that were true, all we'd be hearing is that it's a right-wing media.

When police officer shoots and kills a citizen the media usually refers to the victim as thief as an ex-con or that they had a past arrest record which has nothing to do with why they got shot. So what is the difference?

Jim Harrington Sr So the story needs to be told as "Citizen (or Good Guy!) with a Gun Stops Murders" or "Good Guy with Gun Stops Insane Police Cadet" or things along those lines, not "Police cadet killed by armed party goer." Glad you agree!! Cognitive dissonance owns you, not the other way around!

David Gillespie if they mention race, it's to acknowledge that this nation has a long and storied history of ill-treating blacks, who are victims of state violence, and constantly under attack. Deny that, and I'll point you to Peckerwoods, Aryan Nations, and the KKK, as well as our imperialist control of developing nations. They don't mention if a victim is white, because white privilege is so strong that they don't need to: by not mentioning race, we just assume he's white. Furthermore, the power elite is white, white, white, and whites identify with it against blacks, whom they would lynch if they could. Your ilk would burn a cross on a black family's lawn while in disguise, rather than talk to a black man and look him in they eye

Where are all the people crying for "Universal background checks!" To want to be a cop? Or maybe "Mental health evaluations!" before enrolling in a police training program? Oh wait, I forgot. "Its the guns fault!" Right?

"22-year-old Joshua Womack, Ashley’s brother" as much as i support this guy for doing this and stopping the shooting it's already obvious how it's gonna end, it'll be the exact same ending as the kid who killed who killed that cops retired k-9 unit dog only with a much longer jail time if the cops get there way

I doubt it. It would take some serious brass ones for a prosecutor to argue that the average citizen has a duty to remain meek and get himself shot by a trainee cop going on a rampage while off the clock. And even if you could find a prosecutor willing to make that argument, I don't think it would get past a jury.

If this kid were a fully fledged cop who decided to take his disappointment out on some random citizen while on the job, it might more likely to be excused (and who knows what proportion of police shootings actually fit this description?), but a case like this is too clearly self-defense against a deranged gunman to be successfully prosecuted.

So, Terry and Matt, you contend that there is a test that can predict who will do something crazy with no false positives. Now, you and I know that that doesn't exists, but I agree that prospective police officers should be evaluated as to their mental tendencies, however, that alone will change nothing even if it is more rigorous than it is today. Some "bad apples" will always slip through the testing and end up on the street with a badge and a gun.

Leo L Southworth I did not say that but, with today's tech and knowledge, there are ways to see into the person they are considering as a cadet. Tech is not perfect but, that is the only thing we have at the moment besides gut feeling.

Matt Cyprien, I am a black man, I know about stereotyping firsthand. I didn't experience it from reading a book or watching a documentary. I live it EVERY day. "People of my ilk"? You know nothing of my people.

When Brotherhood steps in everybody don't take a blind eye they get the hell out the way as for brothers and sisters that is serving in any branch of the US military recognize this the conditional rights of using a uniform just consider the fact of serving and protect so I protect you as my brothers and sisters I protect you from a nation in distress I protect you from a nation of our own ignorance and most of all I protect you from the Empire of our own children's love if you can't stand with us you are against us so lay down your boots lay down your dog tags lay down your rifle for I am a child of God and walk with US the uniform don't make you a person the person makes the uniform how we all die fighting to keep our children safe and please recognize that before you try to change the constitution behind our backs with opportunities on folding everyday you don't know what to expect in our lives our children the Empire of guns and cruelty As I am a soldier of God

No excuses, this is who they all are, lowlife evil peaces of shit ! Damaged little children getting to play in a grownup world with grownup weapons , no parental guidance from the bureaucrats who use these mentally deficient throwbacks to fund their lifestyle! these revenue generating lapdogs are to ignorant even to understand they are being used " I am a freeman " can any cop say that with conviction ? And for all the American citizens out there that think the second amendment is out dated, how many more innocent people would have died at the hands of this thug ? To the families of the innocent victims, my hart grieves for your loss and pain!

Seems exactly like what the police force is only he jumped the gun and went on a killing spree before they gave him hi bafge and fellow piecesof shit comrades .. thankfull a decent fellow had a gun and did what he was intendto do and protect himself and his family .. altho im sure some how some one is gonna complain that neither should have had guns and wellwho ever that person isthey need to just stfu cUse I dont have time to argue that guns are good .. people are bad ... and in this case a good man with a gun saved the day ... so fuckt the cops and there cDets and fuck all the haters that believe if guns were banned we would be ok... we should ban all rhe people who think that

I think it's time for white people to riot and loot Tennessee over the killing of the gentle choir boy looking fellow who was obviously misunderstood. I think the armed citizen hero that saved those people's lives should be arrested. It's time to take a stand against those defending themselves. Where is Jackson and Sharpton? The Black Pansies? The DOJ? This is an outrage.

Whoever was responsible for editing this article needs to go back to remedial English. A middle-school student could manage better grammar.
That said, well done to the family. A good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with one.

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